8 Free and Open-source Tiling wm Apps for macOS (Intel and Apple Silicon)

1- Amethyst

Automatic tiling window manager for macOS à la xmonad.

Amethyst is a free open-source app that enables macOS control their app windows sizes, locations, layouts, and spaces. It has dozens of pre-build shortcuts, and several different layouts.

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2- appgrid

macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys

macOS window manager with Vim–like hotkeys

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3- Assembl

An effortless window manager for macOS

Assembl is a free and open-source app that quickly helps you organize and resize your app windows.

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4- Hammerspoon

Staggeringly powerful macOS desktop automation with Lua

Hammerspoon is a tool for powerful automation of macOS. At its core, Hammerspoon is just a bridge between the operating system and a Lua scripting engine. What gives Hammerspoon its power is a set of extensions that expose specific pieces of system functionality, to the user.

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5- PaperWM.spoon

Tiled scrollable window manager for MacOS. Inspired by PaperWM.

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6- Rectangle WM

Move and resize windows on macOS with keyboard shortcuts and snap areas

Rectangle is a window management app written in Swift, based on Spectacle. It enables users to customize dozens of actions, such as screen layouts and window positions, and all shortcuts associated with them.

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7- Tiles

Free Tiling Window Manager for macOS

Tiles is a free Tiling Window Manager for macOS.

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8- yabai

A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

yabai is a window management utility that is designed to work as an extension to the built-in window manager of macOS. yabai allows you to control your windows, spaces and displays freely using an intuitive command line interface and optionally set user-defined keyboard shortcuts using ↗ skhd and other third-party software.

The primary function of yabai is tiling window management; automatically modifying your window layout using a binary space partitioning algorithm to allow you to focus on the content of your windows without distractions. Additional features of yabai include focus-follows-mouse, disabling animations for switching spaces, creating spaces past the limit of 16 spaces, and much more.

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